Taylor added another to make it 0-16 to 0-7 before Cork's O'Callaghan fired over his team's opening second-half score, a pointed free in the 47th minute.

Cork might have been even further behind but for the vigilance of full-back Killian O'Connor, who cleared off his goal-line in the 38th minute, while moments later goalie Patrick Collins had to dive to his left to deny a certain Clare goal.

In the end the game's only goal arrived in the 57th minute, through Cork's talisman O'Callaghan, but it was no more that a consolation score as Clare had the victory in the bag from early on in the half.